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Bills before Brazil Congress slammed for rewarding Amazon land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 15 Apr 2021
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Beef giant JBS vows to go deforestation-free — 14 years from now

Aurora Solá 6 Apr 2021

Empowering Indigenous peoples crucial to climate, biodiversity crises: Study

Dimitri Selibas 2 Apr 2021
Coffee drying outside the house of Abdul Kadeem in Manyate Village on the outskirts of Harenna Forest. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Coffee sustainability check: Q&A with Sjoerd Panhuysen of Coffee Barometer report

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2021

Turtle conservation hits the SPOT in North Cyprus

James Fair 24 Mar 2021

Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna

Sarah Sax 12 Mar 2021

A new app puts invisible communities in Brazil’s Cerrado on the map

Sarah Sax 9 Mar 2021

Indigenous rights take a hit under cover of pandemic, new report says

Meghie Rodrigues 5 Mar 2021
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Colombia’s national parks at a crossroads as new director installed

Aurora Solá 3 Mar 2021

Over half of global environmental defender murders in 2020 in Colombia: report

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 2 Mar 2021

Declaring key ocean habitats off-limits to human activities protects biodiversity and guards against climate change (commentary)

Kelsey Lamp 26 Feb 2021

Women and girls: Let’s transform the ocean by including everyone (commentary)

Leandra Gonçalves, Paulina Chamorro 11 Feb 2021
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

European farmed salmon sector to use only deforestation-free Brazilian soy

Genevieve Belmaker 29 Jan 2021
Squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) play in the trees, along the Yasuni river. Image by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

France contributes to protection of Amazon stronghold, Yasuní National Park

Vincent Ricci 27 Jan 2021
Gold mining is a major threat to the forests and biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon, including protected areas. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Environmental assassinations bad for business, new research shows

Genevieve Belmaker 20 Jan 2021

Fisheries need to make gender inclusion a norm, not just ‘reach’ women, says Pacific study

Carinya Sharples 12 Jan 2021
Blue Anole from Colombia. Photo by Thomas Marent

For Latin America’s environmental defenders, Escazú Agreement is a voice and a shield

Genevieve Glatsky 7 Jan 2021

Colombia’s sustainable forestry drive boosts biodiversity and business

Dimitri Selibas 30 Dec 2020

Geography on the plate: The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity

Aurora Solá 29 Dec 2020

Weak policy oversight could be pushing Brazilian forests closer to a tipping point

Meghie Rodrigues 28 Dec 2020
Red passion vine flower in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future

Dimitri Selibas 24 Dec 2020

Poor governance fuels ‘horrible dynamic’ of deforestation in DRC

Victoria Schneider 21 Dec 2020

In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice

Francesca García Delgado, Vanessa Romo 18 Dec 2020

Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words

Carol Sánchez 17 Dec 2020

In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Dec 2020

‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle

Mayuri Castro 13 Dec 2020

Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department

Antonio José Paz Cardona 7 Dec 2020

Norway bumps rate to protect rainforests amid anticipated U.S. climate return

Vincent Ricci 4 Dec 2020
A small village nestled in the Ha Giang province in Vietnam near the border with China. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Sexual harassment rife in Vietnam’s conservation sector, survey reveals

Michael Tatarski 25 Nov 2020

Graphic novel version of classic science memoir aims for new audiences

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2020
A Grauer's Gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late 2016. There are fewer than 4,000 of the gorilla subspecies left. Photo by Thomas Nicolon

As energy needs drive demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

Victoria Schneider 11 Nov 2020

Technology innovations look to change the cacao landscape in Colombia

Aurora Solá 10 Nov 2020

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An African wildcat in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. While little is known about the threats facing African wildcats in West Africa, across their range they are at risk from hybridization and disease transmission from domestic cats. Image by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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